Slide fastener



Feb. 7, 1933. G. JCYHNSON 41,896,867.

SLIDE FASTENER Filed May 28, 1951 v nvea- A voitur? 02722220032/ by L/wwf Patented Feb. 7, 1933 UNITED 4STATES GUsTAv JOHNSON, or WEST ROXBURY, MAssAcnusnTTs, AssrGNonTo UNITED-GARR FASTENER CORPORATION, on CAMBRIDGE, MAssAcHUsETTs, A conroRATroNor MASSACHUSETTS Application led May 26,

My invention aims to provideV improvements in slide fasteners for attachment to shoes, gloves and the like.

In the drawing which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention z- Figure 1 shows a plan view of a slide fastener stud and a cooperating socket prio-r to engagement;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, but showing the faspractice to provide a slide fastener memberV in the form of a socket while the fixed member is provided as a stud so that the head of the stud will project outwardly in order that the installation may lie smoothly next to the wearer of the garment. In my particular installation I have so designed and arranged the parts that the stud member may be provided as a slide and the socket may be provided as the fixed fastener element, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. y Y

The socket member is formed from a single piece of sheet metal and includes a plate portion 1 having a hollow boss 2 pressed therefrom and provided in its outer end with an elongated stud-receiving aperture 3 which is slightly reduced at one end, as clearly shown in Figure 1. My improved socket member may be attached to its carrying medium 4 in any suitable manner, but in the drawing I have shown it as being attached by means of a rivet 5 located at the under side of the carrying medium 4 and extending through the carrying medium and through a lateral extension 6 of the plate 1.

My improved slide fastener stud member is formed from a single piece of metal and comprises a plate 7 having oppositely disposed 4'st,rap-receiving slots 8-8 8-8 has 'a ysocket-engaging stud portion 11` improved installation is simple, durable and SLIDE FAVSTIENER ier." `seran No. 5401126. y f .y y through which is threaded av strap 9 (Figs. 1l and2).v The plate portio'nil() `which' lies between the slots pressed therefromand'the plate portion 10 55 and stud portion 11 are-divided by a slit 12 ex- 'tendingthrough 'those portions from one' slot `8 tothe other slot 8, as best illustrated in Fig. v4. P The'slot 12'divides the plate portion 10 into two parts, thereby permitting yielding thereof so that the stud member may contract and expand during engagement Vwith and'disengagement` from the socket member.

' In Vthe normal operationof my improved fastener device the stud member 11 is pressed into engagementwiththe boss 2 ofthe'socket vmember through the enlarged portion ofthe aperture?) and the normal lateral stressfvvill pullA thestud into thelrednced portion ofjthe aperture 3, thereby locking thef vstud "and socket against accidentalseparation. While vthe fastener members `when engaged, as shown in Fig. 2, cannotbe separated by any normal lateral stresses exerted thereon, nevertheless there is' sufficient contraction-to the, stud portion 11 to permit it to be separated from the boss 2 of the socketwhen the end of the strap 9 is lifted upwardly and away from the socket member. It will be noted from an inspection of Fig. 2 that the boss portion 2 of 59 the socket is of suflicient length to accommodate the head of the stud in such a manner that it will not bulge the socket-carrying medium 4 beneath the socket. Therefore, my

particularly comfortable to the person wearing the glove, overshoe, or the like which includes such an installation. i f,

While I have illustrated and described a preferred embodiment of my invention, I do not wish to be limited thereby,'because the scope of my invention is best defined by the following claims.

I claim 1. A snap fastener installation comprising, in combination, a 4stud member having .coni tractible and expansible socket-engaging means, asocket member having a hollow boss y to receive and'house the socket-engagingm0 means and provided with an elongated aperture reduced vslightly at one end and a sockett carrying medium to which said socket member is attached,` said stud member being adapted to enter said boss by a snap action through the largest part of said aperture and being normally pulled by lateral stress into the reduced end of said aperture toprevent accidental separation of the fastener member When in use and attaching means formed integral With one of said fastener members and formed for sliding attachment thereof to a strap.

EZ. A slide fastener installation comprising, iny combination, a stud member including a` plate portion having strap-receiving slots therein,Y a contractible and expansible stud portion extending from said plate portion besaid slots and comprising a stud-carrying er .20

tween'the said slots,"a strap passing through medium, a socket secured to a socket-carrying medium and having a hollow boss provided with an elongated aperture reduced slightly at one end and means located laterally at one side of saidboss and formed for attaching said socket member to the socket-carryingl medium and said socket-carrying medium underlying said boss and providing a cushion therefor, said stud being adapted to enter said boss through thetaperture therein andbeing normally pulled by lateral stress into the reduced endof saidaperture to prevent accidental separation of the fastener members when inuse.

`In testimony whereof, I have signed my Y nametothis speciic'atio GUsTAv JoinvsoN.A 

